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Nearby words for sifting sift. 1  to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve. 2  to scatter or sprinkle through or by means of a sieve: to sift sugar onto cake. 3  to separate by or as if by a sieve. 4  to examine closely: The detectives are still sifting the evidence. 5  to question closely. 6  to sift something.
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- Silt : Silt is granular material of size somewhere between sand and clay whose natural origin is quartz and feldspar. Silt is also carried in the water of the river or sea. Specifically river.
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Krrb Presents A How-to on Adding Buttons to Upholstery with Tufting This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Tufting, an upholstery technique achieved by threading through layers of fabric and securing the ends of the thread with a knot or button, is a great way to add a lot of character to furniture without a lot of hassle.ou'll need a tufting needle, nylon tufting thread and shank buttons that have an eyeloop on the back. Colleen suggests pairing vintage buttons with your fabric if you don't have a button maker.
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A Guide to Batting A Guide to Batting by Teri Stillwell. Batting (or wadding for our Australian friends) is a layer of insulation used in quilting between a top layer of patchwork, and a bottom layer of backing material.
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What is the process of wafting? Waft is a reference used in the textiles industry to descibe the horizontal lines of thread on a loom used to create textiles. It is also a nautical term for tying an ensign i…n a knot to indicate distress which is nolonger used.
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- The word wafting is the present participle of the word waft - to make something float gently through the air, or to be moved through the air.
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- Satake's Sifters are capable of separating powdered and granular materials by size differential. The Minisifter and N-Sifter are particularly suited to smaller applications where a sized product is required i.e. oversize, good product and undersize.
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Drafting The making of drawings of objects, structures, or systems that have been visualized by engineers, scientists, and others. (textiles) The process of lengthening raw fibers, in the form of slubbing, sliver, or roving, to make the stock look more like yarn.
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Culinary Dictionary â S Sifter – A flour sifter is a sieve that is especially adapted for use with flour. It is commonly built in the form of a metal cup with a screen bottom and contains a mechanism (wires that either revolve or rub against the screen being operated by a crank or a lever) to force the flour through the mesh.
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Scutching Scutching is a step in the processing of cotton or the dressing of flax in preparation for spinning. The scutching process separates the impurities from the raw material, such as the seeds from raw cotton or the straw and woody stem from flax fibers. Scutching can be done by hand or by a machine known as a scutcher. Hand scutching of flax is done with a wooden scutching knife and a small iron scraper.
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- Definition of sifting in the Legal Dictionary - by Free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. What is sifting? Meaning of sifting as a legal term. What does sifting mean in law?
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- sieve (sĭv) n. A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal or plastic, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing. v. sieved, siev·ing, sieves. v.tr. To pass through a sieve. v.intr. To use a sieve; sift. [Middle English sive, from Old English sife.] sieve (sɪv) n. 1.
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espionage Definition of espionage. : the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company industrial espionage.
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- snivel (plural snivels) 1  the act of snivelling. 2  nasal mucus; snot.
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glean (ɡliːn) vb. 1. to gather (something) slowly and carefully in small pieces: to glean information from the newspapers. 2. (Agriculture) to gather (the useful remnants of a crop) from the field after harvesting. [C14: from Old French glener, from Late Latin glennāre, probably of Celtic origin] ˈgleanable adj.
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waffle waffle (third-person singular simple present waffles, present participle waffling, simple past and past participle waffled) (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle. The geese waffled as they approached the water. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
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filling fill•ing. 1. an act or instance of filling. 2. something that is put in as a filler. 3. a substance such as cement, amalgam, gold, or the like, used to fill a cavity caused by decay in a tooth. 4. Also called weft, woof. yarn carried by the shuttle and interlacing at right angles with the warp in woven cloth.
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Rabbet A rabbet. A rabbet (also known as a rebate in Britain) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machinable material, usually wood.When viewed in cross-section, a rabbet is two-sided and open to the edge or end of the surface into which it is cut.n example of the use of a rabbet is in a glazing bar where it makes provision for the insertion of the pane of glass and putty. It may also accommodate the edge of the back panel of a cabinet.
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espionage Espionage (colloquially, spying) is the obtaining of secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information. Spies help agencies uncover secret information. Any individual or spy ring (a cooperating group of spies), in the service of a government, company or independent operation, can commit espionage. The practice is clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome and in many cases illegal and punishable by law.
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- earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment. verb (used without object) 2. to become filled or choked up with silt. verb (used with object) 3. to fill or choke up with silt.
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- tufted - (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination; golden crested; crested iris; crested oriole; tufted duck; tufted loosestrife.
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ZOOM Flukes - Fishing Tips and Tricks Please try again later. ZOOM Super Flukes are great soft plastic lures but straight out of the package they tend to come with some flaws that I show you how to address and fix.
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- Scavenging definition: the act of searching for things among discarded material | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
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Macbeth Definitions Verb - Pay out (money from a fund) S: Pay A: Hoard. Sieve. Noun - A utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, or for separating coarser from finer particles. Used figuratively with reference to the fact that a sieve does not hold all its contents S: Filter.
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Definitions &Translations Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. Some ancient cultures promoted gleaning as an early form of a welfare system.
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Silt Silt is granular material of a size somewhere between sand and clay whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar. Silt may occur as a soil or as sediment mixed in suspension with water (also known as a suspended load) in a body of water such as a river. It may also exist as soil deposited at the bottom of a water body. Silt has a moderate specific area with a typically non-sticky, plastic feel.